Qtc Management Inc

A subcommittee of the House Veterans Affairs Committee has opened a preliminary inquiry into a veterans administration contract with QTC Management Inc., a firm headed by former Veterans Secretary Anthony J. Principi. Brooke Adams, a spokeswoman for the committee, said Friday that members agreed to the bipartisan inquiry after a report in The Times on QTC's multimillion-dollar contract to conduct medical examinations of veterans applying for disability assistance.

A subcommittee of the House Veterans Affairs Committee has opened a preliminary inquiry into a veterans administration contract with QTC Management Inc., a firm headed by former Veterans Secretary Anthony J. Principi. Brooke Adams, a spokeswoman for the committee, said Friday that members agreed to the bipartisan inquiry after a report in The Times on QTC's multimillion-dollar contract to conduct medical examinations of veterans applying for disability assistance.

The secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs has been asked to produce records of communications between VA officials and a California company with a long-term, multimillion-dollar contract to perform medical exams for veterans seeking disability assistance. In a letter sent Tuesday to Veterans Affairs Secretary Jim Nicholson, Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-Los Angeles) asked for copies of all communications between top agency officials and QTC Management Inc. of Diamond Bar.

Democrats on the House Veterans Affairs Committee called for hearings Wednesday into a multimillion-dollar contract awarded to a firm now headed by former Veterans Affairs Secretary Anthony J. Principi. Principi is chairman of the board of QTC Management Inc., a Diamond Bar company that administers medical exams under contract for the VA. In a two-page letter to Rep. Stephen E. Buyer (R-Ind.

The California company headed by former Veterans Affairs Secretary Anthony J. Principi overcharged the agency some $6 million under a long-term contract to conduct physical evaluations on veterans applying for disability benefits, an audit has found. The report, released Thursday, also questioned a proposal by the Department of Veterans Affairs to amend the contract with the company -- QTC Management Inc., based in Diamond Bar -- to charge higher rates than currently authorized.

President Bush on Tuesday named a retired Army lieutenant general and executive of a firm that earns most of its revenue from federal veterans programs to head the troubled Department of Veterans Affairs. The nomination of Dr. James B. Peake, 63, a decorated Vietnam veteran who was the Army's chief medical officer for four years, was announced by Bush in the Roosevelt Room of the White House. If confirmed by the Senate, Peake will replace James Nicholson, who stepped down Oct. 1.

A Diamond Bar company headed by former Veterans Affairs Secretary Anthony J. Principi could get fees exceeding $1 billion from the VA, much of it on contracts approved and amended while he ran the agency, records show. Principi was president of the medical services company QTC Management Inc. before he joined President Bush's Cabinet in 2001. He ran the VA for four years, then returned to the firm as chairman of the board.